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Yurong “Luanna” Jiang, M.P.A. ’25, Graduate English Address: “Our Humanity”
… in Mongolia, I got a call from two classmates in Tanzania. They had a very urgent question: how to use their washing … all study together here at Harvard. That moment reminds me of something I used to believe when I was a kid: that the … It was built on this exact beautiful vision that humanity rises and falls as one. When I met my 77 classmates from 34 …
Raising the Estimate of Sea-Level Rise
… Picture a plastic bowl. Put a large piece of ice in it—one tall enough that it rises high above the bowl’s rim. Now melt the ice. The bowl will catch most …
Issue: September-October 2021
Losing the Will to Argue—Civilly—is a National Risk, Professor Says
… At this year’s Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) convocation, the message to graduates was both celebratory and sober. For … and for one’s opponent. She also spoke candidly about the rise of what she termed “performative actions”—institutional …
Predicting the Future of China's Rise
… Lawrence H. Summers lived up to his billing as a voice of opposition Wednesday evening at a Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) discussion on China’s rise as an economic power and its rivalry with the United States. Timed to the Beijing Olympics, the event …
These Student Speakers Have History to Share
… Every year , three student speakers address the Commencement crowd in Tercentenary Theatre: the student “parts” that are an essential feature of Harvard’s graduation traditions. Here Harvard Magazine … that her speech, “Our Humanity,” will show that “humanity rises and falls together.” She continues, “In a very divided …
The Rise of Faculty Centrism
… Politically, U.S. professors are less liberal than many people believe, but their ranks also include fewer conservatives than in the … Only 20 percent voted for George Bush in 2004. The rise in centrism, the study authors say, seems to have come …
Issue: January-February 2008
Trade Cards in the Age of Invention
… In the United States, the late nineteenth century was an age of … … 223 … A nineteenth-century advertising medium traces the rise of consumer culture. … A nineteenth-century advertising …
Issue: July-August 2021
University Housing on the Rise
… More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students … some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in the Riverside area of Cambridge, near Mather House and … large, two-section building by Kyu Sung Woo Architects will rise on Memorial Drive. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates …
Issue: September-October 2005
Alumni Cheer on Harvard
… The 2025 rendition of Harvard Alumni Day, which brought … for President Alan M. Garber, who has become the face of Harvard’s fight with the federal government. And while … choral groups serenaded the crowd with “Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee.” “No institution is without flaws” A …
The Modern World Reconceived
… Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New … rich through entrepreneurship and the funding of enterprise, of the officials of states and government who see …
Issue: May-June 2023
Stop—and Ponder—the Presses
… Tours of the Museum of Printing , in Haverhill, Massachusetts, begin, naturally, … Romano says—including one of only 50 working linotype machines in the country. That revolutionary invention, …
Issue: January-February 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
… she was struck and killed by a self-driving car. Although there was a human operator behind the wheel, an autonomous … between people and AI technologies, raises a host of ethical and proto-legal questions. What moral obligations … applications. Consider a prosaic-seeming social change: machines are already being given the power to make …
Issue: January-February 2019
The Rise of the Wind Industry
… As the Chinese , Spanish, Indian, and American governments subsidize the growth of wind technology as a source of renewable energy, they’re … to government subsidization, within a larger context of the rise of green businesses in multiple industries, including …
Issue: March-April 2012
Rise of the Little Guy
… a contract with a big record company; an author needed the promotional help of a commercial publisher. But no longer, points out Nicco … has its pluses, for sure. In the case of entertainment, the rise of the Internet has made it easier for the public to …
Issue: September-October 2013
Harvard Medical School Master’s Graduates Encouraged to Confront Misinformation
… Medical School’s 2025 master’s graduates are entering their professions during what Dean George Q. Daley called … preparation, and training.” Daley noted the dangerous rise of misinformation in public discourse, including the …